#refer

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from. ↗

— John Fowles

#distance #othello #outgrowing-others #personal-growth #reference-to-shakespeare

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. ↗

— Anatole France

#english #french #love #passion #prefer

What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool? ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#love #sexual-preference #weetzie-bat #love

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#i think #most #popular #prefer #than

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#always #day #die #done #final

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#claws #glass #hung #i #i love

I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#i #i think #performer #prefer #think

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#be true #been #capitalism #democratic #economy

But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#bedroom #i #like #lyrics #prefer

I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#i #i do #prefer #really #stage